Offshore Pipelines News - page 78


Building a safety case

Aug 01, 2014

Girish U. Pai, Devendra Awadhiya and Zubin Fatakia discuss the evolution of safety case in designs for offshore platforms. Offshore installations are exposed to nature’s fury all the time. The operations involve handling very heavy modules weighing tens of thousands of tons…

Building an offshore HSEQ ecosystem

Aug 01, 2014

Shore-side command centers are the hub for offshore communications and rescue coordination efforts. Images from McMurdo Group.  McMurdo Group’s Remi Julien discusses how different…

Preventing damaging vibrations for long term pipeline protection

Aug 01, 2014

The J-Lay test rig applies a 20 te vertical load via the rollers whilst pulling the product through. Image from Trelleborg Offshore. Specifying the right vortex induced vibration…

Testing under tension

Aug 01, 2014

Using the tensioner test rig simulator can show how to improve tensioner pad design, says MacKinnon Marine’s Alex MacKinnon. The technical demands on pipeline installers continue to grow, due to the need to service the deeper field depths being exploited…

Contract wins

Aug 01, 2014

The Leman compression module at HSM Offshore, Schiedam. Photos from HSM Offshore.  HSM Offshore has added new contracts to its order book, but more could be done by the industry to reduce costs and more efficiently use assets…

Ativatec makes its mark in Brazil’s deepwater intervention sector

Aug 01, 2014

Daniel Camerini at Ativatec’s workshop at UFRJ’s Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Claudio Paschoa.  Claudio…

Turkey approves South Stream EIA

Jul 24, 2014

The Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning of Turkey approved the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for South Stream's offshore section in Turkey. The report contains the assessment of potential environmental impacts caused by the gas pipeline construction…

Flowrox launches industrial instrument

Jul 22, 2014

Flowrox released the Flowrox Deposition Watch, a new instrument designed to enhance the monitoring of pipelines and related flow-process equipment affected by paraffin wax and asphaltene depositions. It is a predictive device that allows…

Global perspective on flow assurance

Jul 21, 2014

FPSO, deepwater riser and subsea architecture. Photos from Flowsure.  Ensuring successful fluid flow has always been at the heart of the oil and gas industry. However, it is only in the last…

Pipeline damage tool cuts downtime

Jul 18, 2014

Tecnitas, the marine advisory arm of international classification and verification group Bureau Veritas, has launched a major new technology simulation system for pipeline damage assessment, in collaboration with Total.  Empreinte allows…

Pigging panel built for Goliat

Jul 17, 2014

UK-based Smith Flow Control (SFC) has designed a specialist pigging panel to be installed on a floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) built for the use in the Goliat field, the first oilfield to be developed in the Barents Sea…

A heavy challenge

Jul 16, 2014

Drill floor operations on the Rowan Norway. Image from Xcite Energy.  Work on the Bentley heavy oil field in the North Sea showed the significance of experimental data when unconventional fluids are expected to be transported through pipelines…

Trelleborg exhibits subsea solutions at ONS

Jul 14, 2014

Trelleborg’s subsea solutions, including its recently re-branded portfolio of thermal insulation materials and subsea seals, will be on display at the 2014 ONS Exhibition and Conference in Stavanger, Norway. Trelleborg Sealing Solutions…

DeepFlex new Florida facility

Jul 11, 2014

DeepFlex has signed an agreement with Offshore Inland Marine & Services, Inc. (OIMO) to set up a new unbonded flexible pipe manufacturing and qualification testing facility in the Port of Pensacola, Florida. The industrial complex will have direct access to the existing deep water quayside…

BG Group completes CATS sale

Jul 11, 2014

BG Group announced today that it has completed the sale of its 62.78% equity interest in the Central Area Transmission System (CATS) gas pipeline in the UK North Sea and associated infrastructure to Antin Infrastructure Partners. Total proceeds from the transaction…

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